discursiveadjective
uk/dɪˈskɜː.sɪv/us/dɪˈskɝː.sɪv/involving discussion:
a discursive essay
formal talking about or dealing with subjects that are only slightly connected with the main subject for longer than necessary:
a discursive writer/speech
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Debate & discussion
- arena
- compare
- conciliate
- dialectic
- float around
- fly
- fly around
- get down to business idiom
- kick sth around
- negotiable
- negotiate
- parley
- reason with sb
- reasoning
- sophistry
- speak
- talk sth out
- talk sth over
- toss
- weigh in
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Digressing and being indirect or evasive